Like any good friend, Vladimir Putin has Donald Trump's back in a slippery situation.

"Yes, a long time ago".

"I know some have said that this focus on Russian Federation is simply the party that lost the recent presidential election being 'sore losers,"' Power told the Atlantic Council, a Washington think-tank, "but it should worry every American that a foreign government interfered in our democratic process". An unverified dossier, authored by a former British intelligence officer, made headlines last week with its sensational allegations of Trump accepting bribes and indulging in sexual favours while he was in Russian Federation.

He told the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he would "at least for a period of time" maintain sanctions against Russian Federation put in place by President Barack Obama for cyber hacking.

Anyway, if you think that Putin wouldn't comment on the most salacious details in the dossier-that Trump hired two prostitutes to pee in a bed that the Obamas once slept in while staying in Moscow-you'd be very wrong indeed.

"I expect Russian Federation and Ukraine to have strong relationship".

King praised Trump's pick for CIA director, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), and director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, and said that they will help reestablish faith between the president-elect and the intelligence community. I don't think I've ever met him. "But I don't think so". "Well, I don't know what it means by having a relationship". "With that being said, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is very important to me".

Trump suggested that intelligence services may have leaked information compiled by opposition researchers - and circulating widely in Washington - that found Russian Federation might have compromising personal and financial information about Trump that could be used to influence him.

"He has socialised with the most handsome women in the world. We were stablemates, and we did very well that night". "They love what he's doing", Trump noted in the March 24, 2014, Fox interview, though, bizarrely, he also indicated that the poll numbers probably were not trustworthy.

Kosachev said he would not equate Trump's words to a "formal proposal" yet. "By the way, not together-together, meaning he was probably shot in Moscow...." The surfacing of the Savage video seemingly adds to the confusion.

Separate polls for the Washington Post and CNN show just 40 per cent of adult Americans view him favourably - more than 20 points behind the three most recent presidents and at least 44 points below Barack Obama when he entered the White House in 2009.